Word: ornamental
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Words like these would have been unseemly from the mouths of the richly endowed gentlemen architects on whom U. S. Society relied during its last great period of building. Stanford White and Charles McKim were master eclectics who adapted the styles and ornament of Europe gracefully to New York and New England buildings. Ralph Adams Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival. Bertram Goodhue achieved the monumentality of West Point. From these men Wright was isolated by what in their day appeared to be his eccentricity. The isolation is now seen to have been more theirs than...
...fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
...gold nose clip and a strange gold effigy ornament complete the list of things lost. Asked about the latter article, a museum spokesman declared, "We think it was a frog, at least the catalogue says so, but we have forgotten about...
...Finest ornament in the whole performance: the brilliant orchestral playing under Conductor Bodanzky (Siegfried's famous horn-calls are rarely played with such sureness and finish...
...display includes a few of the best known masterpieces of Persian manuscript illumination, as well as 40 to 50 examples of glazed and luster wares decorated for the most part with brilliantly colored ornament and drawing...